# Deaths in October 1995
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1995.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## October 1995
### 1

* Aditya Vikram Birla, 51, Indian industrialist, prostate cancer.
* Einer Boberg, 59-60, Danish-Canadian speech pathologist.
* René Cloke, 90, British illustrator and watercolorist.
* Margaret Gorman, 90, American beauty queen and 1st Miss America.
* Felipe Rivera, 24, Chilean tennis player, traffic collision.
* Henry P. Smith III, 84, American politician.

### 2

* John Ayers, 42, American National Football League offensive lineman, liver cancer.
* Otto Chr. Bastiansen, 77, Norwegian chemist.
* Hajir Darioush, 57, Iranian film maker.
* Helmut Degen, 84, German composer.
* Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, 67, British artist and teacher.
* Ben Meier, 77, American politician.

### 3

* Col Austen, 74, Australian rules footballer.
* Orlando Aloysius Battista, 78, Canadian chemist and writer.
* John Chickerneo, 78, American football player.
* Kevin Commins, 67, South African cricketer.
* Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 86, Brazilian intellectual and activist.
* Štefan Jačiansky, 65, Slovak football manager.
* Nippy Jones, 70, American baseball player.
* Elena Quiroga, 73, Spanish writer.
* Francis O. Schmitt, 91, American biologist and professor.
* M. P. Sivagnanam, 89, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
* Leon Surmelian, 89, Armenian-American author.
* Charles L. Veach, 51, American astronaut, cancer.

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* Fabio Albarelli, 52, Italian competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
* Matt Armstrong, 83, Scottish footballer.
* Woody Bledsoe, 73, American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Else Brems, 87, Danish contralto.
* Arturo García Buhr, 89, Argentine actor and film director, suicide.
* Dean Roden Chapman, 73, American mechanical engineer with NASA.
* Fred Fehl, 89, American photographer.
* Masood Rana, 57, Pakistani film playback singer.
* Eu Chooi Yip, 76, Malaysian politician and Singaporean activist.

### 5

* Walter Edwin Arnoldi, 77, American aeronautical engineer.
* Karl Johan Baadsvik, 85, Canadian skier.
* Arthur Barbosa, 87, English artist.
* Lillian Fuchs, 93, American viola player, composer and teacher.
* Linda Gary, 50, American voice actress (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spider-Man).
* Dick Jurgens, 85, American bandleader.
* Pin Malakul, 91, Thai educator and politician.
* Abdurehim Ötkür, 72, Uyghur author and poet.

### 6

* Michael Allen, 62, English cricketer.
* Paul Baize, 94, French pediatrician and amateur astronomer.
* Karl Band, 94, German architect.
* Eileen Cassidy, 63, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Benoît Chamoux, 34, French Alpinist, disappeared during climb.
* Hughie Charles, 88, English songwriter and impresario.
* José Antonio de Armas Chitty, 86, Venezuelan historian, poet, biographer and researcher.
* Iván Mándy, 76, Hungarian writer.
* Anthony Newlands, 70, British actor.

### 7

* Ya'akov Arnon, 82, Israeli economist and government official.
* Mikhail Butkevich, 69, Soviet/Russian theatre director and drama professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
* Roberto Cabrera, 81, Chilean footballer.
* Ralph Churchfield, 77, American basketball player.
* Gérard de Vaucouleurs, 77, French astronomer.
* Emanuele Del Vecchio, 61, Brazilian football forward.
* Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, 44, German far-left militant, cancer.
* Louis Meyer, 91, American Hall of Fame race car driver.
* Olga Taussky-Todd, 89, Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician.
* Harley A. Wilhelm, 95, American chemist.

### 8

* Erich Brost, 91, German journalist and publisher.
* John Cairncross, 82, Scottish civil servant and Soviet spy during World War II.
* Alvaro Cartei, 84, Italian painter and ceramist.
* Christopher Keene, 48, American conductor and director of the New York City Opera, AIDS.
* Kentarō Ogawa, 61, Japanese baseball player.
* Olavi Salsola, 61, Finnish middle distance runner and Olympian.
* Patric Walker, 64, American-British astrologer.
* Geoffrey Warnock, 72, English philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

### 9

* Kamal Bose, 80, Indian cinematographer.
* Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, 74, Brazilian actress and radio personality.
* Henry W. Clune, 105, American writer and journalist.
* Alec Douglas-Home, 92, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* Zaim Imamović, 34, Bosnian commander, killed in action.
* Kukrit Pramoj, 84, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand, diabetes.
* John A. Scali, 77, American journalist and diplomat.

### 10

* Fateh Chand Badhwar, 94-95, Indian civil servant.
* Doug Cline, 57, American football player.
* Robert Finch, 70, American politician, heart attack.
* Ed Gill, 100, American baseball player.
* Paolo Gucci, 64, Italian businessman and fashion designer.
* Carl Barton Huffaker, 81, American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist.
* Lars Näsman, 52, Finnish football player and coach.
* Doug Russell, 84, American gridiron football player.

### 11

* Isolde Ahlgrimm, 81, Austrian harpsichordist and fortepianist.
* Donald Beckford, 88, Jamaican cricketer.
* Graciela Amaya de García, 100, Mexican feminist and labour organizer.
* Huang Yijun, 80, Chinese conductor and composer.
* Jeff York, 83, American actor (Old Yeller, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Alaskans).

### 12

* Eleanor Aller, 78, American cellist.
* Harald Barlie, 58, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic athlete.
* George Blaikie, 80, Australian author and journalist.
* Gary Bond, 55, English actor (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Anne of the Thousand Days, Wake in Fright) and singer, AIDS-related complications.
* David McLean, 73, American actor, lung cancer.
* Hans Wärmling, 52, Swedish musician and songwriter, drowned.

### 13

* John Tyler Caldwell, 83, American academic and professor of political science.
* Geoffrey Chung, 44, Jamaican musician, recording engineer, and record producer, liver failure.
* Michael Lah, 83, Slovenian-American animator.
* Henry Roth, 89, American novelist and short story writer.
* Béla Varga, 92, Hungarian Catholic priest and politician.
* Jean Weber, 89, French film actor.
* Herbert Weißbach, 93, German actor, cabaret artist, and voice actor.

### 14

* John R. P. French, 82, American psychologist.
* William Fritz, 81, Canadian sprinter and Olympian.
* Gunvor Hofmo, 74, Norwegian writer.
* Edith Pargeter, 82, English author.
* Helen Vlachos, 83, Greek journalist and anti-junta activist.
* Karl Widmark, 84, Swedish sprint canoeists.

### 15

* Akhat Bragin, 42, Ukrainian businessman, bomb attack.
* Marco Campos, 19, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident.
* Claudine Chomat, 80, French communist militant and member of the resistance during World War II.
* Thelma Griffith Haynes, 82, Canadian-American Major League Baseball executive.
* Bengt Åkerblom, 28, Swedish ice hockey player.

### 16

* Richard Caldicot, 87, British actor.
* Günther Happich, 43, Austrian football midfielder.
* Jimmie Lewallen, 76, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
* Augustine Martin, 59, Irish academic, writer, broadcaster and literary critic.
* Joe Pearce, 85, Australian rugby player and coach.
* Thoogudeepa Srinivas, 52, Indian film actor.
* John Walker, 88, American art curator.

### 17

* Mike Brittain, 32, American basketball player.
* Peter Hinchliff, 66, South African Anglican priest and academic.
* Fachtna O'Donovan, 74, Irish sportsperson.
* Pál Zolnay, 67, Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor.

### 18

* Claudio Brook, 68, Mexican actor, stomach cancer.
* Franco Fabrizi, 79, Italian actor, cancer.
* Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, 71, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
* Edward Griffiths, 66, British politician.
* Bryan Johnson, 69, English singer and actor.
* Tommy Lyttle, 56, Irish Ulster loyalist and paramilitary, heart attack.
* William Mackey, 80, Canadian Catholic priest and Jesuit educator, sepsis.
* Ted Sturgis, 82, American jazz bassist.
* Ted Whiteaway, 66, British racing driver.

### 19

* Don Cherry, 58, American jazz trumpeter, liver cancer.
* Kumari Naaz, 51, Indian film actress.
* Harilaos Perpessas, 88, Greek composer.
* Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, 84, Ukrainian-Canadian linguist, lexicographer, author and publicist.
* Don Williams, 59, Australian rules football player.

### 20

* Eric Birley, 89, British historian and archaeologist.
* William D. Campbell, 88, American leader of the international Scouting movement.
* Riccardo Carapellese, 73, Italian football manager and player.
* Jack Rose, 83, American screenwriter.
* Christopher Stone, 53, American actor, heart attack.
* John Tonkin, 93, Australian politician.

### 21

* Maxene Andrews, 79, American singer and actress and member of The Andrews Sisters.
* Jesús Blasco, 75, Spanish comic book author.
* José Ignacio Cabrujas, 58, Venezuelan playwright and theater director, heart attack.
* Harold I. Cammer, 86, American lawyer who co-founded the National Lawyers Guild.
* Manuel Vázquez Gallego, 65, Spanish cartoonist.
* Linda Goodman, 70, American astrologer and poet, diabetes.
* Nancy Graves, 55, American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, ovarian cancer.
* Sverre Hansen, 76, Norwegian actor.
* Hans Helfritz, 93, German composer and photographer.
* Shannon Hoon, 28, American singer-songwriter, drug overdose.
* Vada Pinson, 57, American baseball player and coach, stroke.
* Abel Salazar, 78, Mexican actor, producer and director, Alzheimer's disease.
* Anatoly Shelyukhin, 65, Soviet cross-country skier and Olympian.

### 22

* Kingsley Amis, 73, English author (Lucky Jim, Jake's Thing, The Old Devils).
* Mario Costa, 91, Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
* Simone Gallimard, 77, French editor and publisher, cancer.
* Ralph Whitlock, 81, British farmer, conservationist, writer, and broadcaster.
* Mary Wickes, 85, American actress (White Christmas, Sister Act, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), complications following surgery.

### 23

* Bert Bandstra, 73, American politician.
* Johnny Bookman, 63, American gridiron football player.
* Helen Gilbert, 80, American film actress and musician.
* Don Pendleton, 67, American author of fiction and non-fiction books.

### 24

* Marion Adnams, 96, English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman.
* Jan Bartosik, 47, Polish sailor and Olympian.
* Syed Abuzar Bukhari, Pakistani scholar and president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam.
* Émile Jonassaint, 82, Haitian jurist and politician (1994).
* Hermann Langbein, 83, Austrian communist resistance fighter and historian.
* Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat (b. 1924)
* Anna Wood, 15, Australian teenager, drug overdose.
* Ronnie Selby Wright, 87, Scottish Church of Scotland minister.

### 25

* Agha Saadat Ali, 66, Pakistani cricketer.
* François Brousse, 82, French philosophy professor and poet.
* Noel Crump, 78, New Zealand freestyle swimmer.
* Kenneth Dadzie, 65, Ghanaian diplomat and 1st African Secretary-General of UNCTAD.
* Gavin Ewart, 79, British poet.
* Robert Grieve, 84, Scottish civil servant and planner.
* David Healy, 66, American actor.
* Bernhard Heiliger, 79, German artist.
* Jan Hoffman, 89, Polish pianist and music educator.
* Viveca Lindfors, 74, Swedish actress, arthritis.
* Bobby Riggs, 77, American tennis player, prostate cancer.
* B. F. Sisk, 84, American politician.
* Miljenko Smoje, 72, Croatian writer and journalist, lung cancer.
* Peter Stallard, 80, British colonial governor.

### 26

* Kumbha Ram Arya, 81, Indian politician.
* Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 97, first woman Treasurer of the United States.
* Hamilton E. Holmes, 54, American orthopedic physician, heart failure.
* Wilhelm Freddie, 86, Danish painter.
* Fylymon Kurchaba, 81, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop of Lviv (since 1985).
* John Sangster, 66, Australian jazz composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.

### 27

* André Berge, 93, French physician and psychoanalyst.
* Marta Colvin, 87-88, Chileán sculptor.
* Jacques Heurgon, 92, French historian and classical philologist.
* Mumtaz Mufti, 90, Pakistani writer.
* Richard Ryder, 53, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
* Slobodan Selenić, 62, Serbian writer, literary critic, and academic, cancer.

### 28

* Fouad Abdulhameed Alkhateeb, 69-70, Saudi Arabian ambassador, author, and businessman.
* Chingiz Babayev, 31, Azerbaijani officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan, killed in action.
* Thomas Bellew, 52, Irish politician.
* Julien Bertheau, 85, French actor.
* Edward Drabiński, 83, Polish football player and manager.
* Morris Williams, 71, Australian politician.

### 29

* Robert Boeser, 68, American ice hockey player.
* Fred Gerbic, 63, New Zealand politician.
* Jean Heather, 74, American actress.
* Minna Lederman, 99, American editor and writer on music and dance.
* Al Niemiec, 84, American baseball second basemen and shortstop.
* Terry Southern, 71, American screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Saturday Night Live) and author.
* Jimmy Swan, 81, American country musician.

### 30

* Louis Abolafia, 54, American artist and social activist, drug overdose.
* Paolo Alatri, 77, Italian historian and Marxist politician.
* Anastasios Balkos, 79, Greek Army lieutenant general and conservative politician.
* Stephen Bekassy, 88, Hungarian-born American film actor.
* Virginia Bradford, 95, American actress.
* Brian Easdale, 86, British composer of orchestral, choral and film music.
* Paul Ferris, 54, English film composer and actor, suicide.
* David M. Schneider, 76, American cultural anthropologist.

### 31

* Royal B. Allison, 76, United States Air Force lieutenant general, cancer.
* Word Baker, 72, American theatre director.
* Caroline Bammel, 55, English historian, classicist, and academic, cancer.
* Glenn Berry, 90, American gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
* Alan Bush, 94, British composer, pianist, and conductor.
* Jim Campbell, 71, American baseball executive (Detroit Tigers).
* Rosalind Cash, 56, American actress (The Omega Man, General Hospital, Klute), cancer.
* Derek Enright, 60, British Labour politician.
* Dr. Hepcat, 82, American blues pianist, singer, and baseball commentator.
* Lou Levy, 84, American music publisher.
* Joel Mason, 83, American NFL football player and NBL basketball player.
* Mario Napolitano, 85, Italian chess master.
* Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, 42, British peer, neurological disorder.
* Bill Rowling, 67, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand, cancer.